Elon Musk plans to lay off 5,500 out of 7000 of Twitter's employees (78%) when he purchases the company.
— Dare Obasanjo (@Carnage4Life) October 20, 2022
Twitter has started stack ranking and it's expected layoffs will initially target lower performers, who scored less than a 3 on performance reviews.https://t.co/bbZHpStkFt
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Can anybody explain to me why Twatter needed 7,000 employees?
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This comment from a chud at HN sums it up
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HR bloat like 'benefits management' is always confusing to me. Just outsource that shit.
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Makes sense when you realize that lawyers and the government can turn on tech platforms like a bunch of vultures for not being rightthink enough. Just look at how hard they tried to buckbreak Facebook earlier in the year.
You can't really ensure HR staff are loyal unless they are directly in your pocket, and even then they're liable to go rogue on you.
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Most HR complaints could be solved by sending the employees to a room with a big sign saying "your adults act like fricking adults".
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Devs are all neurodivergent man children (many are man girls) though.
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Twitters tech is not that great so I doubt they have many locomotives working for them
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That was literally how they were solved before the 1960s, before the so called c*vil rights act ruined everything
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Sounds like you've never held a job before.
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Never trust anyone with a career in HR.
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Zuck is doing a great job of breaking Facebook all by himself.
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Facebook lately shifted a lot of HR onto contracting firms as an extra layer of security for whatever reason.
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Probably liability so someone else takes the fall. Or so terminal spergs working at their HR cant ruin some facebook janny's life because he didnt remove wrongthink.
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And the follow up reply that blows it out of the water:
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saving this for my next internet argument
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I disagree
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That’s speculation
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That's a bad faith argument, you spitwaffled gunkwagon.
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Grounds
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I have no evidence to base my argument on but i think you're wrong because of my evidence.
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Darn thats a good butt point doe
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If Elon turns Twitter profitable just by getting rid of all the useless eaters we're going to see activist investors demanding others in the tech sector start doing the same. Please let this happen. Just imagining it is so beautiful it brings tears to my eyes.
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even assuming they all cost nothing but California minimum wage that is 172 MILLION in salary. No fricking way this is right, i must've somehow done it wrong, I cannot believe twitter will cut out at least 172 million dollars a year and just hasn't done it yet, it could easily reach double that with benefits and the fact that most workers there likely earn a lot more than 31k a year. How the frick has twitter been a financial dumpsterfire for SO LONG and not just done this????
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Ideological reasons? It's about keeping a safe place for safe users and safe employees who all feel safe.
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How is everyone shocked that a platform made to make communist and degenerates seem like the majority is a giant gaping waste of money propped up by political acolytes?
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This but unironically. The best bosses for the profit margin are those who only scratch the backs of equally rich people and everyone else must tow the profit line up.
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Sweet unending VC cash
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They're in cahoots with the glowies, so profitability didn't matter before
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Twitter's total salary costs annually are $1.5B, last I remember reading.
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believe or not, lots of companies are ungodly stupid especially those that run off brand names.
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Quantatative easing and it's consequences
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Imagine how hard Twitters userbase will seethe if that happens
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This would be the dream, but the more likely scenario is Soros funds people to post child porn on twitter to try and get twitter into trouble for this move, claiming it could have been prevented with the staff on hand
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Im here for the Elon -Soros neurdivergent war. The internet is elons home turf tho
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Dramatards willing to do it for free to spite the gigajannies that cast them out.
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What dramatard it posting CP?
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Why would Soros fund people to do that when they already are? It probably will go less punished if staffing is cut by 75%.
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I thought the jannies were outsourced
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I have no idea, I'm just making shit up.
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:marseyrevealedtomeinadreamchad:
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I am pretty sure there's a washed up former Olympic athlete on Twitter's board collecting a mid-6 figure paycheck for doing nothing.
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White collar NEETmaxxers.
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For their Q2 statements, they spent 450 million on R&D, 308 on Sales & Marketing, and 216 on General & Admin. So it should be nearly trivial to shave off 300-400 million of expenses. Also a cost of revenue of 540 million, which has to be a majority salaries as well.
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Half a billion for R&D and
@Awoo can't name one thing they've done in the last decade. At least zuck is trying too make the matrix. Trans lives matter.
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It's funny to think if they'd implemented Marsey-posting we'd be like "well at least they did something, the cat emojis are pretty fun. I guess the billions in salary make some sense."
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I doubt it but man. That would be incredible
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Hey fired coders - just learn to write clickbait!
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Twitter is seriously garbage from every technical angle except for whoever fixed their backend since the "fail whale" days when their site would shit the bed every couple hours. They should lay off everybody in the company except that guy.
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At least with Reddit, you can sometimes get useful advice from some of the more niche subs. Twitter is just a godawful dumpster fire. I'm glad Elon will be cleaning it up, it's just sad that he had to blow so much money on it.
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Its a lot of bloat and middle managers running small teams for whatever reason instead of consolidating 1 manager to babysit like 20 people like normal
I have/had a buddy who works there or getting close to roping himself because he worked there. I dunno, he's been ghosting my "hey lets meet up and drink and b-word about FAANG" texts lately.
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Professional managerial class
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People go to shitloads of unnecessary meetings then tell their bosses how overloaded with work they are.
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Honestly though, I don't blame them. If the corporate overlords have made the system that easily exploitable I'd do the same
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You need a lot of people to take care of all of those chuds and their no no talk
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I thought I read that was outsourced lol
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There's in-house policy writers that write policy they pass down to the outsourcing firms to hire and manage the policies, that often again outsource to smaller firms to hire the jannies, and the good jannies get promoted up to the bigger outsourcing firm and promoted within to other and better projects if they do a good job.
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They needed people to pay the $1.5bn R&D budget to.
Yes they seriously spent $1.5bn on R&D last year.
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You do realize all dev work is lumped under R&D for tax credits right?
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Yeah, and where is the $1.5bn of dev work?
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That pronoun thing theyre introducing
I guess that means our codemonkeys were a bit short-changed for their work here. What did rdrama inc. Pay them for the pronoun feature? Surely it was 5 digit at least...
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